This is a genuine question, but I'm having a hard time understanding how this term is used. I know this term refers to someone who has many sexual partners, but I've noticed that it can also just be used jokingly without necessarily meaning that the person actually fits the definition. I was watching a vlog where someone called her sister a hoe and in a different situation she would just say to the camera, “Your mom's a hoe.” I've also heard it in some songs, but I'm not quite sure whether they actually mean someone who fits the definition or if they're just saying it jokingly.

Edit: I'm asking this because I want to understand what the term means and how it's used. I'm definitely not planning to use it, and I don't even curse much in my own language. I just want to understand how it's used so that when I see someone using the term, I can tell whether they're being rude or just making a joke.

Hi, I'm 50 years old. I've started learning English so many times... It always ended in a fluke, very quickly, without any consequences. I know a lot of words, I understand a lot. But of course, I can't speak, I get stressed when I have to do something while traveling. It's a huge complex of mine that I can't communicate fluently in the language... I'd really like to finally do it for myself and dedicate three evenings, say, 30 minutes a week to systematic learning. But how do I do it? What should I choose? Ideally, it should be a system for my phone, or maybe a computer, so I don't have to travel anywhere, because I'll quickly find an excuse not to. I could dedicate three 30 minutes a week and an additional three hours listening to something on headphones. I could listen to DIE at work... Gosh... Does anyone else feel the same way? How do I approach this?

thanks a lot!

i found the word i cant understand... even after ai explanation. i found it in this sentence: Jason enjoys shocking people with his exploits.
Im sure it has negative meaning because this sentence is about a disobedient child who lives his promiscuous life. And i guess its related to the words,,flaunt,, or,,brag,,

I’m a native French speaker, and I also speak Italian since I live in Italy. I’m looking for an English-speaking partner to practice and improve my English. In return, I’d be happy to help you with French or Italian. 😊

I see now what they mean by fundamental vs inessential (taking fundamental to mean “invaluable”, “important”) but surely fundamental and complex (or even involved) can act as antonyms, too?

Eg he’s only just learnt the fundamentals of thermodynamics so I wouldn’t trust him with any complex/involved equations. vs this is quite fundamental stuff so I think he should be able to manage just fine.

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Pessoal, comecei a estudar inglês usando Comprehensible Input e estou meio perdido sobre como aplicar a técnica na prática.

Por exemplo, assistindo a canais como o Volca English, vocês costumam apenas assistir tentando entender o contexto? Ou param para anotar frases que parecem úteis, repetem, revisam depois etc.?

Queria saber como vocês realmente aplicam o CI no dia a dia e o que funciona para vocês. Se puderem dar exemplos de como é uma sessão de estudo, ajudaria bastante.

I noticed that when looking for things, I tend to say it in the past tense. For example, I'd say "Where was my wallet?" instead of "Where is my wallet?" because my brain kind of resorts to past tense from thinking about where I last placed the item.

Is this correct? Would native speakers use the past simple like this? Should I use the present tense, or just say something like "Where did I put my key?" instead?

Or any mistakes if yes then suggest me

Hi, I have a problem with English and I don’t really know how to improve it.

I can understand English quite well, but I have a hard time expressing my own thoughts. For example, when I have to answer a more complicated question or talk about a certain topic for a longer time, I often know what I want to say, but I don’t know how to put it into sentences or what words to use.

I also have trouble developing my answers. I might have one idea, but then I don’t know how to explain it further, give examples, connect it to another idea, etc.

It’s frustrating because I feel like I know more English than I’m actually able to use when I have to speak or write

Are there any meaningful differences between these two?

For examples:

• The new car he's bought is in (an) excellent condition
• This abandoned house is in (a) terrible condition.

The apostrophe is used to indicate that a syllable is usually pronounced should be omitted this time, for the lyrics to fit the tune. Therefore, I can understand why there's one in "o'er" and in "heav'n".

But I can't understand the reason of the apostrophe in "proudly we hail'd", "o'er the ramparts we watch'd" (the second one here).

Even without this sign, I wouldn't pronounce the E in "hailed". It takes some time, when you learn English, for you to remember not to pronounce the E in the -ed suffix, reducing it to a -d or -t sound instead (except after D or T, which is not the case here). So once you've learned it, you don't need an apostrophe to remind you of that.

Hi, I’m currently learning English, and the hardest thing for me is understanding all 12 tenses. We don’t have anything similar in my native language, we use verb aspects instead.

Of course, I know that if I want to move on to the next level, I need to learn them, but I have a question:

Which tenses are actually used in everyday speech in America?

If someone only knows the simple present/past/future, present continuous, and present perfect continuous, do you perceive that person as having poor English vocabulary or as not knowing enough English?

1. Where is Econ 1?

2. Where is the Econ 1 classroom?

3. Where is the classroom for Econ 1?

Hiya, I’ve got my IELTS test on Saturday and I thought I was confident but now that it’s getting closer I can feel my confidence crumbling lol. I need a score of 7.0 overall with 6.5 in each band for college admissions. Stupidly haven’t really done anything so far aside from a handful of practice questions that I found online, since I only booked the test last week.

So now that I only have four work nights worth of prep time left, what would you recommend I focus on? Are there any skills that are super specific to IELTS that will throw off my results even if my English is generally good? I know about the weird “describe a graph” task and I hope it’ll be enough to name all the variables, describe overall trends and then include the most salient data points as evidence?

Also, it says the reading/listening/writing part will be on a computer but the speaking part will be in person. Does anyone know if my conversation partner will be an examiner or a testee themselves? I have the (bad?) habit of adopting simpler grammar and slowing down my speech when I realise somebody is struggling, so without wanting to sound callous I feel like my score would probably drop by a bit if I tried to have a friendly and cooperative conversation with an A2 learner. Or would they recognise I’m trying to accommodate the other speaker? I don’t want to be an asshole lol

Anyway I’d be very grateful for any and all recommendations, or even just reports of your own experience

I love English but TH really tested patience, lol. I was like "why would you ever do that?" while watching a tutorial on how to pronounce it. Fortunately, it's not absolutely necessary to pronounce correctly for your speech to be understood.